"It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it."

-- Brooks Johnson

#Running Quotes #Distance Quotes #Doe Quotes

“You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'”
“My aim is to create the perfect dress!”
“The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.”

Source : Quoted in WChadwick Women, Art and Society (1990).
“Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.”
“Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption”
“Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?”

Source : Ernesto Sabato (2011). “The Tunnel”, p.48, Penguin UK
“You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology. The ability of people to reach their own news sources now, and create different views, is really unbelievable. There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.”

Source : Source: nordic.businessinsider.com
“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.”

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